What CEIDG actually shows
An address for service is mandatory in CEIDG and it is public. The register is wide open: no login, no account, no reason required — type a name or a tax number into the search and the full address appears, flat number included. If you run your business from home and have no other address, that is your home address.
This is not a leak or a loophole. The register was designed this way, and the publicity is meant to protect the people you contract with, who need to know whom they are dealing with and where to send a letter. The problem is that for a sole trader the business address and the home address are usually the same address, and the register does not distinguish the two roles.
Myth vs fact
MitOnly the authorities see the address in CEIDG.
FaktEveryone sees it. The CEIDG search is public and needs no login — companies building marketing databases pull from it too.
MitIt is enough not to declare a fixed place of business.
FaktThat field is indeed optional. The address for service is not: declaring it is mandatory, and that is the one on public display.
MitA virtual address is a way to hide from the authorities.
FaktThe opposite. Delivery works better there than at a flat you leave for a fortnight. You are keeping the address out of a public register, not away from the administration.
Three costs of using your home address
A home address costs nothing, and that is its advantage. You pay for it elsewhere, in three places at once.
Privacy
Your home address enters a database used by salespeople, debt collectors and anyone looking for you privately.
Credibility
An address with a flat number on your invoices and website tells a client more about your scale than you meant to say.
Tied to the flat
Every move means updating the register, and every trip away is a risk with a time-limited letter.
The most expensive of the three costs is the least visible. Your business address is also your address for service, and an uncollected letter from a public authority counts as delivered after fourteen days — whether or not you were in the country.
When a home address is perfectly enough
Not every freelancer needs a virtual address, and selling one to everybody would be dishonest. It is enough if you have someone to sign for a registered letter while you are out and a home address in the register does not bother you. It is also enough when you actually run the business from that flat, so declaring it reveals nothing beyond what the work itself already shows.
A virtual address starts to make sense once at least one of three things is true: you do not want your home address in a public register; you are out of the house exactly when the post arrives; or you work with clients for whom a registered address forms part of their judgement. If none of them applies, stay with what you have.
What a virtual address changes, and what it does not
It changes one thing: it separates where you live from the company data visible in the register, on invoices and on your website. It changes nothing in your obligations — the legal basis for operating at such an address is the same as at a home address, and your accounting and any inspection look identical.
Nor does it hide your data from the authorities or the courts. Your name and tax number stay public; only the address beside them changes. Anyone who claims otherwise is selling you something that does not exist.
How to change the address in CEIDG
The change is free and takes four steps. There is one condition: you must hold legal title to the address you declare, which here means a contract with the operator.
- 1
Contract for use of the address
Signed before the entry is changed — it is the legal title the register requires.
- 2
Application to amend the entry
Through your CEIDG account or at any municipal office. Free of charge.
- 3
Address for service and place of business
Change both fields if both pointed at your flat. Changing one leaves the other on public display.
- 4
Update wherever the address already lives
The tax office and social insurance take their data from CEIDG, but your bank, invoices, website and signed contracts need fixing by hand.
Home address or virtual — the comparison
Four criteria settle this choice, and price is the one that settles it least often. Our packages and contract terms start at 109 PLN net a month.
A home address against a virtual office address
| Comparison criterion | Home address | Virtual office |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | 0 PLN | from 109 PLN net |
| Home address public in CEIDG | yes | no |
| Registered letter while you are away | depends on a neighbour | reception, same business day |
| Moving house | amend the entry every time | the business address stays |
What drives the price of a virtual office
What sits inside the subscription and what is charged separately — before you compare offers on headline price alone.
Read the article- 01Act of 6 March 2018 on the Central Register and Information on Economic Activity (scope of public data, address for service).
- 02Act of 6 March 2018 — Entrepreneurs' Law.
- 03CEIDG public search — open access, no login required.
- 04Act of 29 August 1997 — Tax Ordinance, Article 150 (effect of double notification).
Legal position as at August 2026. Informational only; not legal advice. The Nest's prices are net.
What people ask most
Yes. The CEIDG search works without a login and without stating a reason — a name or tax number is enough to see the full address for service, flat number included. The duty to declare that address follows from the CEIDG Act and cannot be waived.
Yes. The rules require no premises of your own, only legal title to the address — and the contract with the operator is that title. The condition is the same for a sole trader as for a company.
As a rule yes, because a registered address serves the business. How it is accounted for depends on your tax regime and situation, which makes it a question for your accountant rather than for the address provider.
Not if the flat appears in two. The address for service and the fixed place of business are separate fields and both are often set to the same flat. After the change, search for yourself in CEIDG without logging in and see what shows.
With a home address every move needs an amended CEIDG entry plus corrections at the bank, on invoices and in signed contracts. With a virtual address the business address does not change — moving never touches the register.
The conference room at Piękna 49 is available to virtual office clients. We do not hire it out by the hour to people from outside — it is a service attached to the address, not a separate product.
A registered address
The address this article is about
Piękna 49, 00-672 Warsaw. A virtual office run on site, not through an intermediary.
- Reception takes in mail the same business day.
- Registered letters left for collection are picked up on your behalf.
- A contract you can show the registry court and the tax office.